A top 25 technology company

We’re thrilled that we’ve been named a Top 25 Mortgage Technology Vendor by SourceMedia’s Mortgage Technology magazine.  The list was published in the June issue.

In previous years, Mortgage Technology acknowledged the Top 100 mortgage technology companies of any stripe, and a la mode is a fixture on those annual lists.  This year, the editors halved the list and split it into two different ones: the top 25 technology service providers, Like Fair Isaac Corp. (the FICO score people) and the First American Companies, and the top 25 vendors “that license technology per se,” like Calyx Software, Ellie Mae, Fiserv and us.

Our blurb shows that the editors were impressed both by WinTOTAL form filling software’s dominance of the appraisal market as well as our revolutionary new SureDocs public beta, out for use by mortgage brokers and with an appraisal version in the works:

Oklahoma City-based a la mode inc.  produces electronic document and transaction management software.  Over 50% of the nation’s real estate appraisers use its WinTotal report production product.  Its XSites Network provides LOS integration, nationwide coverage, automated status messaging, pre-delivery underwriting-guideline checks, PDF/XML reports, and HMDA reporting.  This year the company launched SureDocs, which creates a PDF digital file from any desktop application – including their loan origination software, word processing or spreadsheet software.  The digital documents are easily stored, retrieved and manipulated.  Through a la mode’s partnership with Wave Systems, SureDocs includes e-signature technology.

Do the math and you understand making the top 100 list in previous years isn’t a pass onto the new list(s). 2005 honorees like Appraisal.com, makers of Day One, and FNC, Inc.  didn’t make the cut.

A top 25 vendor called Veros Software, an AVM developer, had its partnership with Bradford Software touted on the basis that “Lenders will be able to incorporate multiple collateral valuation techniques into their appraisal reports through the familiar ClickFORMS interface.” Lenders can’t add anything to your reports with WinTOTAL, let alone AVM values, but thankfully that hasn’t kept us off the list.